Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-08-26
Dog days ended August 22d.

The nights are getting cooler.
-Watermelons are larger than
usual this season.
"A picnic and a thunder storm
don't agree together.
Peaches are becoming more plen-
tiful at the stores, but they are still
high in price.
The battle with the bumblebees
has commenced, and all the boys are
in fighting trim.
If fly smites you on the cheek,
clay for him." and see that he don't
repeat the dose.
Some one has started the silly
story that ice cresm induces freckles.
Don't believe it girls.
If you want to vote next election
you should see that your name is
placed on the registry list.
The legal season for slaughter
ing squirrels begins September 1st,
and continues until January 1st.
While the summer girl is breast
ing the wave, her good old mother
stays at home and stems tho currant.
But for the house fly, says Prof
Proctor, epidemics would carry of
1000, 900 people per year.
The oldest lawsuit in Illinois
has been on the docket for forty-two
years. 1t began about 50 hog and
has cost the principals about $1,000
-Ex- Governor st. John asserts
that theProhition party will poll1 900,
900 votes in 1888, and will majori-
ty party by 1892. st. John is mod
est, which is new aspect of his COM
position.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is
rapidly failing. She takes short
walks about her Connecticut home,
but her strength is gone and she is
no longer able to enjoy life with her
old zest. She is cheered with the
thought that she has done great good
in the world and that there is only
one "Uncle Toms Cabin"
"A farm hand pitching hay in AL
len county, Ohio, was scared until
his face shone white through tan and
and sunburn, by seeing a wrigling
snake in mid air impaled on the tines
af hfC y,ifohc hcorL vott1n~
with nine rattles to its tail.
The Chicago Tribune breaks
out in poetry over the Presidents
trip to the west. With the language
of Minnehaha, of Hiawatha,it gushes
listen:-
He is coming west in autumn.
In September or October,
Coming to see the prairies,
Coming to enjoy the fishing,
Coming out to have picnic,
Where no gang of Office seekers,
With their tiresome petitions,
Lie in wait and dog his footsteps,
He will bring his Donna Frances,
He will bring his priceless Dn'l,
And will swing around the circle,
AS of o.d did Andy Johnson.
-"Wish / could wear Coney Is-
land bathing suil." said young man
to his cousin last evening, as he sat
on the piazza and perspired. "What
does Coney Island bathing suit con-
sist of, George?" demurely asked the
maiden. "Oh," he replied "a little
cotton to put in your ears" Then
they looked at the black cloud until
it was time to change the subject.
1t is said that the P. &W. Co.
will begin the erection of a grand ho-
lei at Rock Point, Lawrence country
this fall, and make the resort one of
the most attractive in the country.
The object is to make second Cres-
son of it, so far as natural and artifi-
cial adornments 60, the only differ
ence being that one is on the noun
tain summit while the other is in one
of the most beautiful and picturesque
valleys in the country.
Two visitors at Marshfeld, Wis,
live to tell wonderful story of light
ming. One of them was struck upon
the shoulder, the current passing
down his leg and through the sole of
his shoe, making clean cut round
hole in the leather and entering the
floor. The other was likewise struck
on the shoulder and the fluid passed
through his slippers, making six clear
cut holes through the hole of each1